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Descartes: True belief and Knowledge
Descartes overall objective in the Meditations was to develop a system of true belief and knowledge. He starts with the assumption that the senses were false and anything interpreted by them was also false. This one statement disbands all the knowledge that we have ever learned. He traverses a process to set up a system by which knowledge could be gained, and this knowledge would be correct. The senses lie to us, reality could be our dreams, and material objects don't exist. . He rejects his senses, and replaces God with an Evil Genius. Once everything has been broken down, Descartes realizes he exists: "I think, therefore I am" (Descartes 66). With this affirmation comes the knowledge that God exists as a non-deceiver, the senses are not lying, and our world is not a dreamscape. With the senses true, material objects also now exist, and true belief with justification from the mind becomes knowledge.
Descartes first examined those beliefs that......

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